Equipment/Hand Tools

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Actions/activities and tools

Action/activity Tools Purchase options Rough price Comments
Cutting threads Taps, Dies, Alignment jig Arceurotrade sets - the "HSS Metric Tap & Die Set - 32pc - M3-M12" looks good. £50 Quality here is definitely worthwhile. Well made HSS taps and dies make a world of difference
Deburring Deburring tools Arceurotrade £20 for a set
Precise holes Reamers Reamers and sets £80 for a set

Hand tools


Installed

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Proposals

  • Small-scale metalwork: Basic tools (Total: around £1000 incl vat.)
    • 2*Bench Peg And Anvil (these clamp on to a bench edge, to support work) (£19.98)

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    • files
      • 6"/150mm Flat File, Cut 2 Vallorbe (£10.10)
      • Set Of 12 Needle Files, 16cm - All Cut2 (one has to avoid contaminating silver with iron, so we'll want separate files for ferrous metals in addition to this) (£18.50)
    • saws
      • Grobet/vallorbe Saw Frame Adjustable (£19.00) [2]
      • 6" Deep Adjustable Saw Frame (£13.50) [3];
      • Vallorbe Saw Blades Grade 2/0, Bundle Of 12 (£2.85); Vallorbe Saw Blades Grade 2/0, Bundle Of 12 (£2.85); Vallorbe Saw Blades Grade 6/0, Bundle Of 12 (£3.70) (those saw blades are consumables - they break easily)
    • hammering
      • Flat Stake - 10cm X 10cm (£18.70) (this is a small anvil with a machined-smooth surface on all sides) [4]
      • Planishing Hammer Cookson Value Range (£18.25) (a polished-surface hammer for surface finishing and work-hardening) [5];
      • Hammer With 25mm Nylon Head (£9.50)
      • Rawhide mallet (£18.32) [6] (for hitting things without marking the surface);
      • Generic ball-pean hammer (10?) (a non-polished hammer for hitting punches etc.);
      • 4" vice bolted onto a movable base (£90) (url picked at random - may not be the best)
      • small swivel vice of some kind
    • pliers
      • Cookson 5 Piece,115mm Pliers Set (£31.15) (most cheap or kit pliers will have serrated jaws - these are the minimum quality I'd get: box-jointed with smooth jaws)
      • Ring Bending Pliers, Cookson Value Range (£4.91)
      • 5.5"/ 140mm Maun Flat Pliers Parallel Action (£18.65)
      • round triblet (for forming rings and suchlike) (£21.72) [7]
    • Tweezer set (£18.80) [8] (brass and plastic tweezers for pickle, reverse and third-hand for soldering, fine for manipulating tiny things)
    • Straight 7"/17.5cm Shears (£10.45) (for brutal cutting of sheet metal). Aviation snips would be useful on a larger scale
    • soldering:
      • Hand Torch (£20.00) [9] (this is ok for very small things. Much better for bigger work, and giving more control, would be a bottled-gas torch)
      • Magnesia Soldering Block (£6.35)
      • Soldering Sheet 300mm X 300mm X 9mm (£6.50)
      • Picklean Safe Pickling Powder 150g (£5.41)
      • crock pot of some kind for keeping pickle warm (30?)
    • hard silver solder paste (£33) [10] (consumable) (this is great for small-scale work; for bigger things one wants strip solder and flux)
    • marking out
      • 6" Ruler (£3.40);
      • Standard Steel Scriber (£4.10);
      • centre punch (£5.00);
      • digital calipers (£30.24) (that's a fairly cheap one, which is perhaps a false economy. Basic Mitoyoyo calipers are around £60-70)
      • 3" square (£8.75)
    • magnification: Optivisor 2.0x No4 (£38.00); Optivisor 2.75x No7 (£38.00) [11] (these are invaluable for working with anything small. Even better for some things would be a stereo microscope - second-hand or donated, as otherwise very expensive)
    • flexible shaft drill and tools
      • cheap-but-decent Axminster model (£141) [12]
      • Set Of 20 Drills 0.3-1.6mm (£13.30) (consumable!)
      • Polishing Kit No 2 (£43.45)
    • Toolmaking
      • bench grinder (?)
      • mapp gas torch for annealing and hardening


  • Small-scale metalwork: possible extensions, budget permitting
    • Lighting - some good desk task lighting (probably this should be included in the above)
    • Bench polisher (not much)
    • Doming block and punches, for forming sections of spheres (£200 from Sutton tools) [13]
    • Bottled gas torch (£145 + gas) [14]
    • Rolling mill (£807) [15]

(for reducing the thickness of sheet, embossing texture and pattern (laser-cut?) on sheet surface, and making wire. Rolling mills come in between £200 and £2000; this is in the middle of the range, with just one pair of rollers but with gearing)

    • Stereo microscope (£1500 new; hopefully less second-hand or donated)
    • Raising hammers and stakes (for making forms out of metal sheet) (£ a few hundred)
    • a wider range of flexible shaft tools: diamond burrs, stone-setting burrs, ... (each one is not very expensive, and these are semi-consumable - perhaps best got on demand)
  • Small-scale metalwork: implausible extensions (just to give an upper-bound context)
    • laser cutter that can cut metal sheet (e.g. up to 1mm)
    • PUK4 microwelder (£3195) [16]
    • air-powered hand engraving kit (£ several thousand) [17]
    • high-resolution 3D wax printer, for lost wax casting (£ lots)


Wishlist

Do we already have a general purpose socket and wrench set with extras like this 242 piece kit with cabinet for £100? www.machinemart.co.uk/shop/product/details/cht497-242pce-tool-set-chest. We could use another when we have more users.

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